Scientists community fear Donald Trump presidency

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WASHINGTON (APP) - From the fight against climate change to dwindling budgets for research, the US scientific community fears the worst under Donald Trump , seen by many as the most hostile to science of any American president in history.

"There's a fear that the scientific infrastructure in the US is going to be on its knees," said Robin Bell, a geophysicist at Columbia University and incoming president-elect of the American Geophysical Union.